Animal Ballad Poems

We see but grey where once was green
As bulldozers now scrape,
Turning a joyful rural scene
Into joyless landscape. 

The area was green-belt land
With forest and pasture...

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Stepha Kaye and Ima Gen

(B. Marquardt-Alexander is retiring. I am taking over this now). 

A Siamese cat, with bright emerald eyes
Light and dark in the...

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Hopping across fields of happiness
Early-morning Fluffy rejoices in the edibles of earth
Glowing white and pearly, a real spunky bunny
Points her petite, pink nose upward to...

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Day & Night

It was still dark morning when I left
the nightclub, a place where one can
be sure not to meet reality 
I saw a river of...

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Mi a di dog pon di corner, mi bark an’ mi moan
But di people pass mi by, mi feel all alone.
Dem use mi fi guard...

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The afternoon was spent calulating
what would be misfortune to millions
as he calulated the winnings from
the online " Hoss lottree Game"
the odds were in his favor...

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"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge

There lived no better heart to know.
His love was like a...

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Refrain:

In these mountains, far from the sea,
Where hearts have heard the tales,
Screams a lady, she’s wild and free,
Her life bears in details.

Though we never named...

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The first time I saw you - there -
Sophisticated, warm-blooded,
And for a kiss, you blubbered - 
Barbary lipped, presenting the bill.

If I'd snuggle up, you'd...

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Lonely caterpillar, roaming around wondering what your purpose is, why the butterflies are so beautiful and you are you! Crawling around, getting ready to sleep,...

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A Farmer’s Plight
The field is ready
The work is done
Toiling in the soil
Under the sun.
 We wait now for the monsoon rain
To end our hunger and...

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On a cold, dark, dearth autumn night, 
While I wrestle, nestle faithfully near my window pane
Over a long memory of callous and precarious heart break...

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There was a horse, in this field,
White as any snow on Earth,
He looked sad as a sad owl,
But never pried for loneliness.

This is the only...

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Poor does not mature, withers...
      Does not do plastic operation, just pull.
     Poor is not immortal,...

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The tides began to roll in, 
around four a.m, all was silent.
as the stingrays gathered, 
constantly, circulating the giant 
snails, all the while the docks...

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